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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2022

Japan’s self-destructive immigration policy

Japan's criminalizing asylum seekers and stigmatizing immigration is contributing to an existential crisis comprising a fast-aging population, declining fertility and a shrinking economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 5, 2022

At CES, chipmakers show off plans to go after each other’s turf

Intel's loss of leadership in chip-manufacturing technology has exposed it to challenges from newly confident rivals in the PC market.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Jan 5, 2022

Canadian Olympic hopefuls play it safe amid COVID threat

The Jan. 6 to 13 championships in Ottawa, where Canada's figure skating squad for Beijing will be selected, will be held without spectators.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 5, 2022

London’s fintech boom opens the door for dirty money

A fast-growing breed of startups present themselves as alternatives to old-fashioned banking, but critics say they're an easy conduit for financial crime.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 5, 2022

COVID-19 and the rise of digital capitalism

The pandemic has allowed the dominant players in digital industries to conduct a full-scale experiment regarding the virtual world's assimilation of the physical one.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2022

One more time? Sapporo, like Tokyo, wants to host its second Olympics

It is hoped that plans to make use of existing facilities will allay fears over costs, but nonetheless local support for a bid for the 2030 Winter Games looks to be on the wane.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2022

Tesla opens showroom in China’s Xinjiang region, cited by U.S. as genocide hub

The move comes just over a week after U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill requiring firms to prove their activities in Xinjiang don't involve forced labor.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2022

The epic rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes

In Silicon Valley, where the line between talk and achievement is often vague, there is finally a limit to faking it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 4, 2022

U.S. catches Kremlin insider who may have secrets of 2016 hack

Extradited from Switzerland in December, Vladislav Klyushin has been accused of illegally making millions of dollars trading on hacked corporate-earnings information.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 4, 2022

Germany’s post-Merkel checklist

Although the outgoing chancellor managed to avert multiple catastrophes, her caution may have exacerbated a number of other problems, including the Greek financial crisis.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jan 3, 2022

Reigning MVP Nikola Jokic reflects on early days in NBA

Nikola Jokic struggled at the start of his NBA career when he joined the Denver Nuggets and had to change his diet to become the league MVP in 2021, the Serbian center said in an interview aired on Serbia's Arenasport on Saturday
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jan 3, 2022

Hokkaido's Ishikari Beach offers rich bounty for beachcombers

The Tsushima Current carries objects from the south as it flows northward in the Sea of Japan, and the west wind from the Eurasian continent pushes them ashore.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2022

The Biden administration in a multipolar world

A half-century since Richard Nixon met with Mao Zedong, the progress the U.S. and China launched has been all but been lost, and President Joe Biden is partly to blame.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2022

Can Europe stay neutral and avert a U.S.-China war?

While the EU wants to deepen trans-Atlantic cooperation, there is no consensus on how to do so without alienating China or undermining the very international system it aims to defend.
Japan Times
Rugby
Jan 2, 2022

Japan Rugby League One player Blake Ferguson arrested on drug charges

Blake Ferguson, a former Australian rugby league international who recently switched codes, has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of drug offenses, according to his club, NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 2, 2022

‘Don’t Look Up’: Tick, tick, kablooey

Adam McKay wants you to know that it's the end of the world and you should absolutely, unequivocally not feel fine. (But do laugh.)
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 1, 2022

No wiggle room ahead as world looks to move on from pandemic

The economic and social policies that countries around the world choose now as they look to move on from the pandemic will have consequences for decades to come.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Outlook 2022
Jan 1, 2022

For Kishida, 2022 could be make or break in security and diplomatic sphere

The omicron coronavirus variant may throw a wrench in the prime minister's plans to have 2022 be a 'year of actively promoting summit diplomacy.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2022

Southeast Asia the battleground for geo-economic competition between China and the U.S.

Washington has opened markets to ASEAN nations but not public investment in public goods such as infrastructure — nowhere close to the scale of Chinese investment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2022

The big issues for 2022

Many of the big questions for 2022 are related to inflation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 1, 2022

New Year celebrations muted by omicron, but South Africa offers hope

South Africa, which first raised the alarm about the new fast-spreading coronavirus variant, became the first country to declare its omicron wave had crested.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021

What inflation in 2022 will teach us about capitalism

Since the 1980s, capitalism has evolved to keep inflation under control. The risk now is that capitalism has embarked on a regime change.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 31, 2021

South Africa passes fourth wave and counts few added deaths

The data offered cautious hope to other countries grappling with the variant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 30, 2021

Nikkei marks best year-end close since 1980s bubble

The Nikkei has rallied 4.9% this year, driven by fiscal and monetary stimulus as well as optimism over a post-pandemic economic recovery
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2021

Young talent isn’t following the money to Wall Street

The talent pool is being drawn elsewhere. Traditional investment banks can't win them back just by upping starting salaries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2021

Inside America’s polarized views on race

Democrats are much more likely to attribute racial gaps to systemic causes such as the legacy of slavery while Republicans believe individual actions and decisions explain the disparity.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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